Never Will I Touch the Vine, O Valentine

O dear Clementine,

I know in my soul

You can’t be my valentine

If you wish or even if you don’t wish

Let your name be the moon

On my silhouetted skyline!

Your ears are deaf to my voice

Your eyes are blind to my words

The realization in my mind is total

I am blocked off your media

There isn’t any space in your circle,

I can rightly feel mine!

I walk the dark paths alone

Under the tall ghostlike trees

The night bushes with eyes

Staring at me, following me

You don’t hold any lamp for me

Why in my heart should I pine?

You’ll walk with that someone else

Who possesses all your profile;

You’ll embrace and kiss him

And offer him in worship your thoughts

 Your love grape will be an oblation for him

Never will I touch the vine!

Xavier Bage

Tues, Feb 19, 2019

The Silence of Death

There is silence all around

Only silence

Nothing but silence!

The door of the  love hut is shut

And the front yard ---

doesn’t open its arms to me

The rose at the side ---

doesn’t smile to me anymore

The message board looks to me blankly

My deepest heart asks,

Why is this torturous quiet?

Why is this deafening silence?

Is it death? Is it death?

The silence replies, ‘Yes, it is!’

The door says rudely,

“Don’t come here any more --

seeking life!”

Xavier Bage

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Wish I had That Chest

Wish I had that chest
Measuring 56inches
Wish I had that tongue
That all duel clinches!

Wish I had that skill
That twists the words
Wish I had that stone
To kill two flying birds!

Wish I had the hordes
To raise me overhead
I'd be the high heaven
To eat of god's bread!

Devotees to shout my name
On the roads and media
I know they'll all vanish
But I 'll be in encyclopaedia!

A man of clay I'm here
A bag of flesh and bone
Today I move on the earth
Tomorrow I will be gone!

Xavier Bage
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

This Foul Poisoned Air

Lies and twists truths he

Over the speakers loud,

His sins he so cleverly

Hides under a holy shroud!

Misleading the simple folk

To dark forests of doom,

Where they find him a deliverer

 to bring greater gloom!

One lifted over the heads

Above the gullible minds

Has torn the soul of the soil

Thrown the pieces to winds!

How many will be victims

Of this foul poisoned air!

How many years will pass

For our thoughts to be fair!

Xavier Bage

Tuesday, Dec 04, 2018

Enemies Let's Remain

Enemies let’s remain

For it suits us best

That we don’t rest

Our weapons of pain!

If we stop to injure

what will set rage on fire

Our minds in hate inspire

Let not kindness lure!

In wounds let bodies bleed

Let more be surgery strikes

Contempt our fiery heart likes

Bullets and bombs we need!

Doves of peace in death fall

Entangled on border  wire

Let violent words transpire

Our devotees to enthrall!

Xavier Bage

Sat, Nov 24, 2018

Night is Never Silent

An airplane flies in the near sky

Trucks on the road rumble by

A distant train whistles, donno why

Night is never silent , it speaks.

The factories may be asleep

Markets may be dreaming deep

Their noises in busy minds leap

Today and tomorrow within wreaks .

A lonely bird on a tree cries

As the only branch it nests dies

Has seen truth of life and lies

Yet, the  Bethlehem star it seeks!

Xavier Bage

Friday, Nov 16, 2018

Portly Men in Politics

I wonder how the present

portly men in political profession

Do things that are dishonest

Utter words that are false!

Don’t they have  conscience?

The  person on the prime post

Roars, sings in impolite tongue

Holding the devotees in trance

Making them clap wildly in praise

Is  impoliteness in political science?

Xavier Bage

Wed,   Nov  14,  2018